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Mabopane

Mabopane is a large residential township located about 22 km north-west of Pretoria, within the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa.

Mabopane
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The place

Mabopane is a large residential township located about 22 km north-west of Pretoria, within the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa. The 2011 census counted roughly 110,972 residents, predominantly Setswana speakers.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mabopane

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Odi Stadium

    Odi Stadium is a derelict multi-purpose stadium in Mabopane, South Africa. It was used mostly for soccer matches.

    4.7 km · multi-purpose stadium in Mabopane, South Africa · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Giant Stadium

    Soshanguve Giant Stadium, commonly referred to as Giant, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Soshanguve, a township of Pretoria, South Africa. It was utilized as a training field for teams participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup after being rebuilt and upgraded in 2009 to meet FIFA specifications.

    2 km · building in South Africa · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mabopane

Airports
Lanseria (HLA), 51 km · O.R. Tambo (JNB), 73 km · Polokwane (PTG), 231 km
  • Johannesburg → Mabopane
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · R85–110
  • Polokwane → Mabopane
    228 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · R225–305
  • Mbombela → Mabopane
    292 km · quickest by road, 5h 9m · R315–425
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mabopane

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mabopane. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SossusvleiNA

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,282 km
  2. 02
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    1,432 km
  3. 03
    Cape Maclear (Chembe)MW

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,459 km
  4. 04
    Ilha de MoçambiqueMZ

    11 ways of moving, 47 sources

    1,757 km
  5. 05
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,452 km

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Around it

Next door to Mabopane

Mabopane is 4 km from Soshanguve, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.